Crawler crane beside a freshly erected tower, Wind Garden Wind Farm

A lattice-boom crawler crane stands beside a newly completed turbine tower at Wind Garden Wind Farm near Makhanda, its 112 m of steel still awaiting a nacelle and blades. Tiny figures at the base give the scale of the machines assembling this 94.5 MW Eastern Cape project. Construction began in May 2025 on NOA Group's first wholly owned large-scale wind farm.

Wind Garden

Sustainable Development Goals

7. Affordable and Clean Energy

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construction crawler crane eastern cape garden makhanda noa group tower erection turbine tower wind wind-garden wind turbine construction

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